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- adjective Sort of
short , short to adegree ,moderately short.
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- adjective somewhat short
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Examples
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Suspects described as shortish, female and between 12-16 years of age.
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There is a shortish history, but a significant one, of jazz singers.
Mike Ragogna: Jazzy Mandarin & The Gate's Wide Open: Conversations With Dianne Reeves and Kurt Elling Mike Ragogna 2011
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I did one shortish scene in Insilico last night, in which Fifth and Victoria (Xiang 1.5) discussed her future, vendettas, and the place of droids in a droid-hating world.
Howard Hughes Forgets How to Sleep myownpetard 2010
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I did one shortish scene in Insilico last night, in which Fifth and Victoria (Xiang 1.5) discussed her future, vendettas, and the place of droids in a droid-hating world.
Howard Hughes Forgets How to Sleep myownpetard 2010
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It is shortish, but looks quite lovely tucked into the collar of my light green coat.
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Then I figured, as long as it is shortish, I should get it cut short and styles.
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Another reason to program the piece, however, is that it fits well on a program with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a work that demands either a whole evening to itself or something strong but shortish as a counterbalance.
The National Symphony Orchestra audience directs its attention to Eschenbach Anne Midgette 2010
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Despite missing three very makeable shortish putts, Woods shot a bogey-free, four-under-par 68 on Thursday afternoon, in difficult, blustery conditions.
Golfers Get Back to Golf in Australian Open John Paul Newport 2011
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Again, I think this is a good story and I like my characters though I already cut the extraneous ones as too many for a shortish story.
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In the end, I scrapped most of them and ended up combining several into one shortish story.
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